ماه

Formally from م و ه (m w h) and its variant, م ي ه (m y h), both of which derive denominally from مَاء (māʔ), itself being ultimately from Proto-Semitic *māy-.

• IPA^(key): /maː.ha/

مَاهَ • (māha) I (non-past يَمُوهُ (yamūhu), verbal noun مَوْه (mawh) or مُؤُوه (muʔūh) or مَاهَة (māha))
مَاهَ • (māha) I (non-past يَمِيهُ (yamīhu), verbal noun مَيْه (mayh) or مَيْهَة (mayha))

1. (intransitive) to produce water (of a well, etc.)
2. (intransitive) to abound with water (of a well, etc.)
3. (intransitive) to take on water (of a ship)
4. (transitive) to give water to, to hydrate

   Synonyms: سَقَى (saqā), رَوَى (rawā)

   1. (transitive) to water (an animal)
   2. (transitive) to gild, to coat with gold or similar material
   3. (intransitive) to err [with فِي (fī) ‘in one's words’], to make a slip of the tongue

مَاهَ • (māha) I (non-past يَمَاهُ (yamāhu), verbal noun مَوْه (mawh) or مُؤُوه (muʔūh) or مَاهَة (māha))

1. (intransitive) to abound with water

مَاهَ • (māha) I (non-past يَمُوهُ (yamūhu), verbal noun مَوْه (mawh))

1. (transitive) to mix [with accusative ‘something’ and بِ (bi) ‘with something’]

From Middle Persian 𐭡𐭩𐭥𐭧 (byʿḥ /⁠māh⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎶𐎠𐏃 (m-a-h /⁠māhaʰ⁠/), from Proto-Iranian *mā́Hah (compare Northern Kurdish meh, mang, Ossetian мӕй (mæj), Avestan 𐬨𐬃 (mā̊), 𐬨𐬂𐬢𐬵 (måŋh), from Proto-Indo-Iranian *mā́Has (compare Sanskrit मास (mā́sa)), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗh₁n̥s (“moon, month”) (compare Albanian muaj, Armenian ամիս (amis), French mois, Tocharian A mañ, English moon, month). Doublet of مانگ (mâng, “Moon”).^[1]

For the poetic sense "beautiful person," compare the semantics of Arabic قَمَر (qamar, “Moon; (in poetry) beautiful person”).

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ماه • (mâh) (plural ماه‌ها)

1. moon
   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 122:

     شبم ز روزن اگر ماه آسمان آید
     جهم ز جای تصور کنم که ماه منست

     šabam zi rōzan agar māh-i āsmān āyad
     jaham zi jāy tasawwur kunam ki māh-i man ast

     At night, if the moon of the heavens comes to me through the window,
     I leap forth from my place, imagining that it is my beloved.

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

2. month
3. (poetic, figurative) beautiful person; beauty; the beloved

   Synonyms: ماهرو (mâhru), ماهرُخ (mâhrox)

   تو خیلی ماهی ― to xeyli mâhi. ― You are so lovely.

   • c. 1520, Selim I of the Ottoman Empire, edited by Benedek Péri, The Persian Dīvān of Yavuz Sulṭān Selīm, Budapest, Hungary: Research Centre for the Humanities, Eötvös Loránd Research Network, →ISBN, page 122:

     شبم ز روزن اگر ماه آسمان آید
     جهم ز جای تصور کنم که ماه منست

     šabam zi rōzan agar māh-i āsmān āyad
     jaham zi jāy tasawwur kunam ki māh-i man ast

     At night, if the moon of the heavens comes to me through the window,
     I leap forth from my place, imagining that it is my beloved [lit: "moon"].

     (Classical Persian transliteration)

• مه (mah) (poetic)

• → Gujarati: માહ (māh)
• → Hindustani:

  Hindi: माह (māh)

  Urdu: مَاہ (māh)

Inherited from Middle Persian [script needed] (mʾy /⁠māy⁠⁠/), from Old Persian 𐎶𐎠𐎭 (m-a-d /⁠mādaʰ⁠/). Doublet of ماد (mâd).

ماه • (mâh)

1. (historical) Media (a geographic region and ancient satrapy of the Persian Empire in northwestern Iran, originally inhabited by the Medes)
2. (historical) Media (a possible ancient kingdom ruled by the Medes from approximately 700 to 550 BCE, whose extent and sometimes even existence is debated)

   Synonym: ماد (mâd)

• Dehkhoda, Ali-Akbar (1931–) “ماه”, in Dehkhoda Dictionary Institute, editors, Dehkhoda Dictionary (in Persian), Tehran: University of Tehran Press